Vessel Model: 1990 Harkers Island Trawler Typical wooden hull with a Carolina flare and no deadrise at the stern

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 194

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All new to the forum i have been boating all my life and after a 900 mile trip with a friend last winter, Sold my gas sucking power boat and bought a wooden hull trawler " crazy yea some days i think so" Glad to be a part of the community !!

Vessel Model: 1990 Harkers Island Trawler Typical wooden hull with a Carolina flare and no deadrise at the stern

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 194

Last winter i helped my best friend head south Dec27th it was snowing here ! And i was wearing FrogToggs over my dry suit. Keeping me dry and warm. After about 5 days of being wet. I felt it needed to dry " i know about other things not laundry" i thought what would 4 mins in the dryer hurt. As a pulled the suit out a guy beside me started laughing it was now size 4-T would fit my grandson that was about 3 months old, Then i slowly checked the tag " Never machine DRY" oops ! The Honeybadger now reads tags before drying !

Vessel Model: 1990 Harkers Island Trawler Typical wooden hull with a Carolina flare and no deadrise at the stern

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 194

Hopcar it is a 4-154 Perkins , It was a dry stack but i have changed it over to wet set but the engine is fresh water cooled with a keep cooler so i have a diverter valve to adjust the amount of water into the muffler , the pump is 1 inch Jabsco and was told at 2000 rpm it pumps 28 gallons a min, On my dads diesels he would divert part of the water out the side of the boat to relive back preasure on the engine not sure what is a good number to push out or keep ?

Vessel Model: 1990 Harkers Island Trawler Typical wooden hull with a Carolina flare and no deadrise at the stern

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 194

Shes 24+ feet with a 9ft beam, 2 ft 2 inches draft full keel with a stainless shoe bow to the rear of the rudder. I was built in a yard outside up in harkers island with a band saw a hand saw and a skill saw, Not to high tech.

Vessel Model: 1990 Harkers Island Trawler Typical wooden hull with a Carolina flare and no deadrise at the stern

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 194

Ok i am preping the topside and the upper hull for paint, Color seems to be the problem i am keeping the wheel house White with one accent stripe down the side. What color should the hull be, Navy blue with red accents, Red with Navy accents, Green with some Gold/Yellow accents,Sea Foam Green with white accents, Toss out any ideas guys i am needing input, i want the traditional trawler/tug look but classy.

Black hull would be very workboat-looking which could have character appeal, but I think with that very tall cabin a dark hull of any color would make the boat look awfully top heavy.

So I'd vote far a nice gray with black bottom paint and a red bootstripe.

Healhustler of this forum is very accomplished with Photoshop and you may know good graphics guys yourself. Perhaps they can do some color changes on your photos to show you what some combinations would look like.